South Dakota's At-Large Congressional District elections, 2012
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The 2012 U.S. House of Representatives elections in South Dakota took place on November 6, 2012. Voters elected one candidate to serve in the U.S. House from the state's At-Large Congressional District.
Incumbent Kristi Noem won the election.[1]
| Candidate Filing Deadline | Primary Election | General Election |
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Primary: South Dakota has a closed primary system, in which the selection of a party's candidates in an election is limited to registered party members. South Dakota also scheduled a June 26, 2012 primary runoff.
Voter registration: Voters had to register to vote in the primary by May 21, 2012. For the general election, the voter registration deadline was October 22, 2012.[2]
- See also: South Dakota elections, 2012
Incumbent: The incumbent heading into the election was Kristi Noem (R), who was first elected in 2010.
South Dakota had a single At-Large Congressional District, which is made up of the entire state.
Partisan breakdown
Heading into the November 6 election, the Republican Party held the one Congressional seat from South Dakota.
| Members of the U.S. House from South Dakota -- Partisan Breakdown | |||
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| Party | As of November 2012 | After the 2012 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 0 | 0 | |
| Republican Party | 1 | 1 | |
| Total | 1 | 1 | |
Candidates
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General election candidates
June 5, 2012, primary results
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Election results
General Election
In 2012, Noem was re-elected to the U.S. Congress, representing South Dakota's At-Large Congressional District.[7]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
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| Republican |  Kristi Noem Incumbent |
57.4% | 207,640 | |
| Democratic | Matt Varilek | 42.6% | 153,789 | |
| Total Votes | 361,429 | |||
| Source: South Dakota Secretary of State, "Official Election Results, 2012 General Election" | ||||
Campaign contributions
Candidates for Congress were required to file up to seven main reports with the Federal Election Commission during the 2012 elections season. Below are the candidate's reports.
Matt Varilek
| Matt Varilek Campaign Finance Reports | |||||||||
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| Report | Date Filed | Beginning Balance | Total Contributions for Reporting Period | Expenditures | Cash on Hand | ||||
| April Quarterly[8] | April 13, 2012 | $102,373.52 | $168,136.49 | $(35,848.63) | $234,661.38 | ||||
| July Quarterly[9] | July 15, 2012 | $240,683.21 | $151,734.79 | $(100,502.40) | $291,915.60 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $319,871.28 | $(136,351.03) | ||||||||
Kristi Noem
| Kristi Noem Campaign Finance Reports | |||||||||
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| Report | Date Filed | Beginning Balance | Total Contributions for Reporting Period | Expenditures | Cash on Hand | ||||
| April Quarterly[10] | April 15, 2012 | $969,340.73 | $355,690.96 | $(138,528.67) | $1,186,503.02 | ||||
| July Quarterly[11] | July 15, 2012 | $1,235,270.54 | $318,996.36 | $(104,664.48) | $1,449,602.42 | ||||
| Running totals | |||||||||
| $674,687.32 | $(243,193.15) | ||||||||
Cook Political Report's PVI
In 2012, Cook Political Report released its updated figures on the Partisan Voter Index, which measured each congressional district's partisanship relative to the rest of the country. South Dakota's At-Large Congressional District had a PVI of R+9, which was the 127th most Republican "district" in the country. In 2008, this state was won by John McCain (R), 54-46 percent over Barack Obama (D). In 2004, George W. Bush won the state 61-39 percent over John Kerry (D).[12]
District history
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2010
On November 2, 2010, Kristi Noem (R) won election to the United States House. She defeated Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D) and B. Thomas Marking (I) in the general election.[13]
| U.S. House, South Dakota General Election, 2010 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | Kristi Noem |
48.1% | 153,703 | |
| Democratic | Stephanie Herseth Sandlin | 45.9% | 146,589 | |
| Independent | B. Thomas Marking | 6% | 19,134 | |
| Total Votes | 319,426 | |||
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Politico, "2012 Election Map, South Dakota"
- ↑ South Dakota Secretary of State, "Registration & Voting," accessed July 27, 2012
- ↑ Rapid City Journal "Matt Varilek, Johnson staffer, enters U.S. House race," December 3, 2011
- ↑ Sioux City Journal "Politically Speaking: Varilek enters race for South Dakota congressional seat," December 2, 2011
- ↑ Rapid City Journal "Noem challenger Strong fails to get enough signatures to be on ballot," March 27, 2012
- ↑ The Daily Republic "http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/event/article/id/61859/," February 3, 2012
- ↑ South Dakota Secretary of State, "Official Election Results, 2012 General Election," November 8, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Matt Varilek's April Quarterly Report," accessed September 6, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Matt Varilek's July Quarterly Report," accessed September 6, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Kristi Noem's April Quarterly Report," accessed September 6, 2012
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Kristi Noem's July Quarterly Report," accessed September 6, 2012
- ↑ Cook Political Report, "Partisan Voting Index Districts of the 113th Congress: 2004 & 2008" accessed October 2012
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2010," accessed March 28, 2013
